Costumes, Cans, and Volunteers Oh My!

You're never too old to dress up for a good cause! On October 31st, Honors students volunteered to get together and go "trick-or-treating" for canned goods around the city of Ada. Canned goods collected by the Honors students were donated to a local food shelter in Ada.

Honors Students Sarah Snow (left) and Cerina Stiles (right) join Marissa Dodson to take a moment to smile for the camera after a long evening collecting canned goods.

We Play Mind Games

"Josh, Cody and Trevor Prepare for Mind Games"? Or "Game of Bowls" (1908) by Henri Matisse? You decide.

On October 21, 2012 the East Central University Mind Games team competed in Oklahoma City against Rose State in a battle of the brains. Mind Games is a prime time Oklahoma television program that brings together teams of students from Oklahoma colleges and universities in a weekly battle of knowledge. ECU's team is led by Chemistry professor Dr. Dane Scott, and last year it consisted of Josh Smith, Cody Soden, and Trevor Sutton, all of whom are members of ECU's Honors Program. During the course of the game, each team answered a variety of questions and scored very respectably; however, at the end of the game, the score was tied. Did East Central team triumph and score the last point? Or did Rose State chime in at just the last second to come out victorious? Check out this link to see how it turned out.

2012 Honors Arkansas Overnight

On Sunday, October 21st, twenty-six ECU Honors students, along with Drs. Benton, Hannah and Latimore hit the road. Destination:  Arkansas.  Over the next 36 hours, we visited the Crystal Bridges Museum of America Art in Bentonville; the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock; and the University of Arkansas Medical Center, also in Little Rock, where we attended a talk and Q&A session with Rebecca Skloot, author of this past summer's ECU Honors SummerRead: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

  

A little Atlatl anyone?

Catherine Phipps examines an arrowhead.

On October 16^th, 2012, Dr. Andrews and Honors students in his Enduring Questions:  Perspectives from the Sciences section visited the OU Archeological Survey in Norman for a unique opportunity to glimpse into the past. Students who visited the OU Archeological Survey were able to learn more about prehistoric life around the world as well as in the Oklahoma region, including the awesome fact that wooly mammoth remains were found in Caddo County in February of 2012. Students who attended the field trip to Norman also had the opportunity to participate in a spear throwing contest using a common Ice Age device called an atlatl.  In the process, they learned that size doesn’t always matter when the girls of the trip dominated the spear throwing challenge.

"You found that where?!" Honors students look on at the tusk of a wooly mammoth found in Caddo County in 2012.

"He didn't say 'Simon Says, Laura!" Laura Asaro (far right) is the first to fall in reenactment of pre-historic ritual.

Catherine Phipps prepares to defend
herself against approaching male.

Atlatl Rugby  . . . John Dale's Dream Sport?

Homecoming 2012

Represent! Trevor Sutton and Emily Davis serve HSA as Homecoming Royalty.